Author: The Conversation

With the proliferation of smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the era of the paper map is over. That assumption is wrong.

If you could pick one measure to evaluate your health, what would you pick? Blood pressure? Cholesterol? There is something that is more informative: maximal aerobic capacity, otherwise known as VO₂max.

TikTok has become one of the most downloaded mobile apps for Apple and Android devices, unseating the likes of YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat.

China has set the Chang’e 4 lander and rover down on the far side of the moon using a downward-looking camera and hazard avoidance software as it slowed its descent using retrorockets.

Let’s not spoil one of the largest and most fundamental experiments for humankind by letting dreams of colonisation go too far

Nearly 170 years before the invention of bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit”.

It’s embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe.

While most missions are designed to look at the surface or atmosphere of planetary bodies, InSight’s goal is to look deep beneath the surface.

It’s hoped that robust debate will encourage better, stronger fair-use conditions rather than leaving South Africa far behind as it amends legislation dealing with copyright, writes Denise Rosemary Nicholson.

Cellphone use is no longer completely forbidden on planes, but it’s still heavily restricted.